[Rarebooks] FS: Edmund Wilson inscribed copy of New Poems by American Poets (1953)

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INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY (FROM EDMUND WILSON) - INCLUDES HIS POEM 
"THE WHITE SAND"

HUMPHRIES, Rolfe, ed.  NEW POEMS BY AMERICAN POETS. New York: 
Ballantine Books, 1953. Personal inscription from Edmund Wilson to a 
family member on front flyleaf. 180 pp. 8vo., green cloth stamped in 
yellow, sunned at spine and edges, else fine. In a good plus dust 
jacket with shallow chipping at top of front panel and spine, a few 
small closed tears, spine sunned, some light foxing. The book 
features, beside Wilson's poem "The White Sand," works by W. H. 
Auden, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, 
Louise Bogan, Theodore Roethke, Richard Eberhart and others. #83653 $650.00

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